Joan Pogalies, Member 62,612 from Ohio USA, created these Lake Erie clouds.  They are photos on metal at 3ft x 5ft each.

You can find out more about her and her creations on her website

Resa Blatman, Member 57,717, is an artist from Somerville, MA and recently submitted some of her cloud related art. The main image is called “Climbing the Hill to Consciousness, 2023” painted in oil and acrylic on wood panel (size: 48h x 36w inches).  She told us “I’m currently making a lot of moss paintings for an upcoming solo show. All of them have clouds as their backdrop because, for me, clouds and moss are the perfect pairing”

You can see more of her work on her website

“Little Green” is a solo exhibition of moss and sky paintings by Resa Blatman
McCoy Art Gallery at Merrimack College in Andover, Massachusetts, U.S.
Opening reception (free and open to the public): Friday, September 20, 2024, 6:30-8 pm
https://www.merrimack.edu/academics/rogers/art-galleries/

Beverly Leach, Member 26,259 is an artist who loves the skies over Alabama, USA.  She draws using pastels from the photos she takes of the magnificent clouds she sees.

The Portland Gallery is preparing an exhibition by contemporary artist James Lynch.  The exhibition, Light as Dreams, brings together over 25 works at the gallery, which is his first solo exhibition since announcing his new representation with them. His atmospheric scenes of the English landscape, explore the artist’s fascination with both the sky and landscape of Wessex. The exhibition will also include a selection of works focussed on cloud formations.

The exhibition will take place from 26 September to 11 October 2024 at The Portland Gallery, 3 Bennet Street, London, SW1A 1RP

More details can be found on the Portland Gallery website or by emailing Esme Dollow

Ned Stern is a professional artist and received a degree in Fine Art from The American University in Washington.  The main painting, above, is called “The Sea Awaits” and the one below is “Cloud Parade”.

You can see more of his work on his website

Kathy Wilson, Member 58,037, recently contacted us about artist Andy Eccleshall’s, collection at the Smith & Vallee Gallery, Edison, WA.  Andy is an English artist now residing in WA.  He has a deep appreciation of nature and takes his inspiration from the light, form and atmosphere around him.

Mary Williamson, Member 54,343, spotted this sculpture by Akio Takamori, “Twin Mountain” at the Portland Art Museum, Oregon, USA. 

Marilyn Murphy, Member 41,144, is an Artist and Professor of Art Emerita at Vanderbilt University. This is one of her graphite drawings entitled “Sky Walkers”. She told us “There are times in New Zealand that the clouds look low enough to grab, hop on then go off to have adventures in the sky. The country is called The Land of the Long White Cloud in Maori it is Aotearoa”.

You can see more of her work on her Marilyn Murphy website

This oil on canvas painting is called “Stratocumulus of Azure Sky” and is the first work in a series “Azure Sky” by artist Julia Dedieu, Member 63,285

You can see more of her work on her website.

Susan Delia sent us this image of a beaded QR code created by her niece. She told us “My niece, Shelby Shirey, is an art student at College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan USA. Her grandfather, David Shirey, was a Cloud Appreciation Society member and really enjoyed it and shared his joy of this society with his granddaughter, Shelby Shirey. Shelby has created, through some app, a QR code to take you to the society. She then laid it out on graph paper and beaded, over the course of 70 hours, this QR code. She has posted this on Instagram stories and displayed it in the CCS student art exhibit. We saw many people scanning the QR code and commenting on how wonderful it was and how fun it was there is a Cloud Appreciation Society”.

Pedro Diaz Del Castillo, Member 37,530, told us he lives most of the year in Madrid, Spain with luminous skies and magnificent clouds the whole year.  A perfect subject for his cloud paintings.

You can see more of his work on his Instagram

Sherry Palmer, Member 27,151, has been visiting Skye for over 30 years.  This painting is called “Sea Mist behind Ullinish Point” where the cloud stayed most of the day.  Sherry painted this in oil on canvas and told us “Skye has the most amazing clouds; it is impossible not to say something about them in paint!”

Julia Dedieu, Member 63,285 is an artist and recent member of the Cloud Appreciation Society.  This painting was created in oil on canvas in 2023 and was inspired by the view from an airplane window.  Julia has called it “The Sun in the Clouds”.

Michael Pockley, Member 63,102 recently painted this sunrise over the forest, as seen from his bedroom in Bohemia.  He told us his paintings “are not simply about the clouds themselves but about the manner in which the water vapour in the atmosphere interacts with the sun”.

Click here to see more of his work

Holly Lane is a Californian artist who has been exhibiting for more that 30 years.  She told us “I LOVE clouds, but this is the first painting and frame I’ve done that is dedicated to the soaring experience of watching clouds shift in a for-get-me-not blue summer sky”.   

You can see more of Holly’s work on her website – www.hollylaneart.com

“We Shall Rise”, © Holly Lane 2024, 36.5 x 12.75 x 5.75 inches Acrylic and carved wood

Sheila Finch, an award winning artist, shared one of her latest pieces “Where Angels Soar”. On her website she tells us “Where Angels Soar began over 5 years ago when I recalled from memory a moment, a brief glimpse of an ocean sky that felt other-worldly. The clouds swept upward in layers with streams of light filtering throughout”.

This piece is called “Coming Storm” and was painted using oils by Diana Howard, Member 41,003.  She told us it’s of the Ste Victoire in Aix en Provence.

Marilyn Murphy, Member 41,144,  is an Artist and Professor of Art Emerita at Vanderbilt University.  This is one of her graphite drawings entitled “Air and Dreams”.

You can see more of her work on her Marilyn Murphy website

She also has a solo exhibition at the Haley Gallery in Nashville, Tennessee  with some of her cloud series, including the one above.  The exhibition also includes 19 of her relief prints.   It opened on 24 February and will be up until 22 March 2024

Laurel Sherrie, a lifelong artist, paints landscapes of treasured places.  She uses traditional oils and rich colours to create her pieces, which of course include wonderful skies.  Here is the first from her Ethereal Skies series entitled “Clouds of Freedom”

You can see more of her work the Laurel Sherrie website